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HE MAN PINCHOT 

A Character Sketch 

of the 

Popular Candidate 

And Answer to Candidate MeSparran 
By Henry W. Shoemaker 




(Reprint from the "Altoona Tribune") 



The Man Pinchot 

A Character Sketch of the Popular Candidate 

By Henry W. Shoemaker 

(Reprint from the " Altoona Tribnoe") 




When a man is nominated by a great 
party of men and women for the Governor- 
ship of the State richest in resources, and 
of most diverse strains of population, in 
our country, it arouses curiosity and con- 
cern. Everyone in hamlet or proletariat, 
villa or city mansion, wants to know some- 
thing about "this man Pinchot"; in other 
words, "what manner of man he is". The 
following paragraphs were written by one 
who claims no degree of intimacy with him, nor special facility 
for observation, but who has worked with him and in the day's 
work has recorded these among many other favorable impressions. 

PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

When the writer first saw Gifford Pinchot it was on a bright 
morning in the late winter of 1914, the place Harrisburg, the 
occasion the presentation of a silver loving cup to the late Dr. J. T. 
Rothrock, "Father of Pennsylvania Forestry," by a group of 
admiring friends from all over the .United States. Just before 
the luncheon commenced, a tall figure entered the room, in looks 
like a mural, by Puvis de Chavannes, of some Frankish King, 
with keen blue eyes, aquiline features, and handsome drooping 
blonde mustache. He gave the impression of a knightly figure of 
old; if not a king, a king's champion, in the present instance in 
the lists for the public's good. The best friend the American 
people as a whole have ever had. He was GifTord Pinchot. former 
forester of the United States, but then a private citizen of Mil ford, 
Pike County, Pennsylvania. 



ANCESTRY. 

This resemblance to a Prankish King may be borne out in fact 
by his ancestry, which comes from Prankish or northern Prance 
and Planders. The Pinchot family, Hugu enots, originated at 
Arras in Picardy, that militant city which was almost demolished 
by the Germans in the World War, and not far from the birthplace, 
at St. Quentin, of Anthony Benezet, Quaker philanthropist, called 
by Benjamin Pranklin the first citizen of Philadelphia in Revolu- 
tionary days. On his mother's side the name was originally 
Henne, in Planders; later, when as Huguenots they were driven 
to England, it became Henno, and in New England, Eno. On 
both sides Gifford Pinchot is of Pfankish stock, the l)lood of 
Charlemagne and Guynemer. He is Gothic rather than Gallic. 
The name Henne is also found in Pennsylvania along the Blue 
Mountains in western Berks County, possibly of the same stock, 
especially as the gifted political forecaster, Oliver D. Schock, of 
the Pul)lic Service Commission, tells us the Henne family have 
been Republicans for generations, in a Democratic district. 
Gifford Pinchot is and always has been a Republican. 

EARLY LIFEi/ 

Gifford Pinchot's early life was spent in Pennsylvania on the 
Delaware River. He was born on August 11, ISii."), and is old 
enough to recall having hunted the now extinct wild pigeons. His^ 
father and grandfather ran timber rafts to Philadelphia, kept 
store, were farmers. He is as typically and ruggedly American as 
was Abraham Lincoln. Both split rails and chopped wood in early 
life. Gifford Pinchot can swing an axe or marking hatchet today '^ 
in a way that makes the average "woodsie" or "hick" green with ' 
envy and sit up and take notice. 

RELIGION . 

A man's religion is inseparable from his early life, (iifford 
Pinchot's upbringing was essentially Christian, of the old-fashioned 
kind. At Yale College, he tells us, he overlooked many of the ' 
fields of athletic prowess, though like a militant Christian he was 
a member of the Freshman football team, and got his "numerals" 
to be President of the College Y. M. C. A., and conduct his own 
Bible class, which he did for four years. Gifford Pinchot is a 
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and among his closest 

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friends and admirers in Harrisburg is Rt. Rev. James II. Uar- 
lington, D. D., of the Harrisburg Diocese, a genial, kindly and 
democratic churchman, and, like Mr. Pinchot, a past president of 
the Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania. 

EDUCATION. 

Gifford Pinchot's education was varied and cosmopolitan ; it 
included a term at the district school near his Pike County home, 
private tutors, Yale College, and forestry schools in France, Ger- 
many, Switzerland and Austria. He was in school in Paris when 
the Communards were marched through the streets to be stood up 
against a wall and shot ; he saw McAIahon and Gambetta, and can 
recall the smoking ruins of the Tuileries. Those stirring scenes 
may have awakened at that early age his strong championing of 
the right. Yale and Princeton have shown their appreciation of 
his practical knowledge by making him Sc. D., while McGill Uni- 
versity, Toronto, Canada, gave him the degree of LL. D. He was 
a "frat" man at Yale, belonging to Psi Upsilon. to which his arch- 
rival, Chief Justice \V. H. Taft, also belonged, and to Skull and 
Bones. Giiford Pinchot is a living exemplar of "Yale Democracy." 

CAREER IN PENNSYLVANIA v/ 

We will bridge many chapters of his nation-wide and world- 
wide activities to sketch briefly his career in Pennsylvania. In 
1914, after his unsuccessful but valiant campaign for the Senator- 
ship against Boies Penrose, it looked as if his political career had 
gone into eclipse. Governor Burmbaugh, despite the solicitation of 
his friends, omitted naming him a member of the State Agricultural 
Board. He was criticized because he stumped for J. Denny 
O'Neill. There were some who forgot to name Gififord Pinchot 
among noted Pennsylvanians. In 1919, after an effort was made 
to put life into the fast-dying mechanism of the State Forestry 
Department at Harrisburg, and it failed, and the reactionaries were 
sitting tight behind their political bulwarks. Governor Sproul sur- 
prised the Commonwealth by announcing his appointment of 
\ Gifford Pinchot as a member of the Forest Commission. He 
appeared at the first meeting after his appointment with an open 
mind. He heard a lot, but he verified all he heard. Then he 
opened out. The genial, affable, smiling gentleman was a grim 
fighter. It was there he showed his Prankish blood, the blood of 
the amiable poilu who could crack a joke and eat a chocolate bar 



and then eviscerate a trench full of Germans with his saw-tooth 
bayonet. "They shall not pass." After he had his facts he de- 
manded that the department be cleaned up and become business- 
like; if not, he would wield the broom himself, and he did. It was 
a whirlwind, knock-down, pitch-out affair, but Pennsylvania 
emerged with the finest Forestry Department, not only in the 
United States, but the world. 

A SAVER AND SALVAGER OF MEN 

There are many stand-patters and office-holders who say that 
if Gilford Pinchot is elected Governor there will be a cleaning out 
"on the hill." Not so; there would only be in the cases of glaring 
incompetents; but any man vi^th an ounce of decency or brains has 
a chance to stay if he can make good. Gififord Pinchot wants good 
men. When he took charge of the Forestry Department, a couple 
of hot-heads fell over themselves to hand in their resignations, but 
the rest stayed on, waiting for whatever might be their fate. The 
new Chief Forester surveyed his personnel, and began a series of 
shifts and re-arrangements that soon put every man in his proper 
place, where he could do the maximum good that was in him for 
himself and for the Commonwealth. The State Forestry Depart- 
ment today is run by the same men who headed it during the old 
regime, with the one or two exceptions noted above. And there is 
no abler group of men in the whole United States today. The chief 
trouble w'ith that old forestry bureau was "misplaced man-power." 
A good man need have no fear with Gififord Pinchot, and a poor 
one only that he may be catapulted into a better job for which he is 
better suited. "Success is only finding the work we like best," is 
one of his oft-repeated expressions. 

THE SALARY RAISER 

Candidate McSparran has been rampaging about the State 
talking "salary raiser." a thing which most folks don't understand, 
and some, when it was brought up previous to the May primary, 
got considerably "het up" over it. We will now tell the story from 
beginning to end, for if there is any culprit, or any one to be 
blamed, the writer of these lines is one of the guilty, and oflfers 
himself for punishment. 

When Gififord Pinchot took charge of the Pennsylvania De- 
partment of Forestry it was to be only for a few months, to pave 
the way and "get things ready" for Deputy Commissioner Robert 



Y. Stuart. He found men who had been in the Department for 
twenty years were receiving salaries about on a par with cash girls 
in a department store. They only held on bceause they loved the 
work in God's outdoors. As best he could he strove to readjust 
those "salaries" to a living wage. In 1921 he got through a new 
forestry law raising the salaries, including that of Commissioner, 
but he expected to be out of office, and in private life, six months 
before said salary raiser went into effect, and never profit by it 
himself. Then some of his friends, like the author of this sketch; 
Major Stuart, the efficient Deputy; the late Dr. J. T. Rothrock; 
Hon. Edward Bailey, and Mrs. Mary Flinn Lawrence, of the 
Commission, stepped in. Gifford Pinchot was accomplishing such 
a big work in his fight and propaganda against forest fires that 
they urged him to put his resignation back in the desk. They had 
him shoving it back until it looked like a U. S. passport in Europe 
in war time. Meanwhile the salary raiser went into effect, but 
Gifford Pinchot profited not one cent by it. He took three vaca- 
tions without pay — one to California, one to Wisconsin, and an- 
ther to Martha's Vineyard, and when he was on the job divided 
the surplus with underpaid employes of the Department and other 
forestry extension projects. He realized he was needed to make 
the Department the best on earth, especially as Major Stuart, his 
successor, was one of the chief instigators in his remaining. He 
again discarded his pay envelope after announcing his candidacy 
for Governor in the '"primaries," and shortly after resigned 
altogether. Gift'ord Pinchot's "hang over" after the original date 
set for his resignation has made a political "squeak" for 
McSparren ; but it was worth ten million dollars to the people of 
Pennsylvania to enable the premier forester to perfect his program 
and policies and fight the fire fiend that destroys millions of forest 
property annually. 

HIS REPUTED WEALTH 
An intimate friend of Gifford Pinchot states that he has known 
times when the great conservationist was hard pressed for $500. 
Not that he is an extravagant man, for he is the reverse; he is 
most modest in his mode of living and dress, is absolutely unosten- 
tatious, but he spends large; sums of money for the public good, 
like financing the U. S. Conservation Association in its fight to 
save the water powers in the west for the public, and to endow the 
Yale Forest School in memory of his father, the State tuberculosis 
campaign, and many other admirable benefactions. 



A BUSINESS MAN 

If Gifford Pinchot had not been devoted to the pubHc welfare 
and conservation he would have been a great leader of big business. 
His is essentially a business mind. The late George W. Perkins, 
once a J. P. Morgan partner, often told the writer's father that 
"T. R." said that "G. P.," as he called him, "could see through a 
business problem quicker than that keenest of the younger IMorgan 
partners, Col. Robert Bacon." Gifford Pinchot's father, the late 
James W. Pinchot, of ]\Iilford, was a self-made business man of 
varied interests, and several uncles were active commercially in 
various parts of Pike County ; his grandfather, Amos R. Eno, a 
leading financier of his (l;iy and generation. Gifford Pinchot's 
business interests today are many, is associated with as many types 
of investments as Governor Sproul, but despite this, "forestry" is 
called his hobby, whereas it is only one of his many worthy activi- 
ties. If elected Governor, Gifford Pinchot will give the State of 
Pennsylvania a live business administration. 

HIS LABOR VIEWS 

No Governor will ever be closei: to lajjor than Gifford Pinchot, 
if the voters choose him next November. He knows the workers 
personally and intimately. He has swung an axe with them, tramp- 
ed with them, and bunked with them. He is honest and sincere, and 
if there are to be labor troubles in the future, labor will be sure of 
the Roosevelt square deal. Gifford Pinchot is "human ;" he is not 
"stuck up" with pride of place and power. He is as simple and 
self-effacing as Lincoln, the other great toiler. He wants to hear 
labor's side, because he feels with it and knows its tremendous 
influence on the development of America. In his great speech at 
the Court House, Lock Haven, September 29, he said : "I am one 
of those who believe in collective bargaining." He will be the 
first Labor Governor in the United States. 

WITH THE FARMERS 

Gifford Pinchot has been a practical farmer since boyhood, a 
fruit grower and stock raiser. He is an old-time Granger. After 
the so-called "old-liners" had dug his political grave and were 
getting ready the embalming fluid and picking the flowers, the 
farmers were his fast friends. They were the first to welcome him 
back to political life in 1!)19, shortly after his appointment to the 
State Forest Commission, l)y inviting him to address the Grangers' 



Picnic at Centre J lull, lie received a great ovation there and 
vote of confidence. He received a greater one when the invitation 
was returned in 1922, and he began his intensive campaign of the 
State by again addressing the Centre Hall gathering of Grangers. 

AS A FRIEND 

Gififord Pinchot appreciates friendship, and in turn never 
forgets a friend. He goes out of his way to keep alive associations 
with persons who helped him, no matter how small the service in 
previous campaigns. There is no ingratitude or "interested mo- 
tives" in his friendships. All is pure gold. 

AS A FIGHTER 

Gifford Pinchot has attacked wrong and injustice in every 
form. No vested interest, if corrupt, is too powerful or too firmly 
intrenched. In this fighting aspect he reminds one of the late Irish 
leader. Charles Stewart Parnell ; physically he is very like Sydney 
Hall's portrait of the great American-Irish statesman. Gifford 
Pinchot's followers are as loyal as Parnell's, and have followed him 
through vicissitudes even much more disheartening, into pros- 
perity ; whether it be the Water Power Trust, the timber grabbers, ' 
the oil kings or the mining barons, Gifford Pinchot has met and 
vanquished them single-handed, and kept the public domain for 
the public. 

IN THE WORLD WAR / 

Shortly after the German hordes crossed the Beldan fron- 
tier in 1!)U. Gifford Pincliot. actinted probal)ly as mucli bv his 
broad love of liunianitv as his Flemish blood. Inirried to Relsium 
to the aid of tlie homeless refugees. Aided l)y his wife, lie wast 
performing a notable work for civilization, when General von 
Kluck, with iiis usual obtuseness, having heard that Gifford Pin- 
chot's sister was married to the British envoy to neutral Holland, 
ordered his expulsion from Belgium. From the United States ^ 
he was able to direct important relief work through the agen- 
cies of the Belgian Relief Commission and the Red Cross. 
Later on, when tlic war clouds were hovering about the United; 
States, nnd Colonel Roosevelt was organizing his famous divi- 
sion, he selected Gifford Pinchot as a member of !iis i>ersonal 
staff and Colonel of the first Forestry Regiment. Gi fiord Pin-} 
chot is an honorary member of the American Legion Post at 



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Mil ford, Pike County. He has been an active worker for ade- 
quate compensation for disabled ex-service men ever since the 
Armistice. 

AS AN OUTDOOR MAN 

When Gififord Pinchot was personally investigating reports 
of inefficiency in the State Forestry Department in li)l!). he 
visited every location where alleged illegal or wasteful cutting 
was going on. Incidentally he had to climb some of the highest 
mountain peaks in Pennsylvania, in midsummer, proving him- 
self an apt Alpinist. Doffing coat and vest, he led his group of 
investigators, and never tarried until he had satisfied himself 
as to the correctness of the reports. Praise of Gifford Pinchot as 
a sportsman came from an unexpected source — Senator Penrose, 
his old adversary, in 1920. The Senator had visited the giant , 
timber on Swift Run, Snyder County, now known as Snyder- 
Middleswarth Park, with Col. W. C. McConnell and U. S. judge 
C. B. Witmer, and fearing lest the titanic hemlocks be cut or 
burned, he turned to one of his companions saying, "Tell Pincliot 
to make a park out of these grand i-rees and save them ; he can 
do it, he is all right. Pinchot and I were members of the same 
hunting club in the West, the Boone and Crockett Club. To 
belong one has to have killed several species of big game ; Pin- 
chot was one of the best shots we had and is a sportsman and a 
gentleman." 

AN ALL AROUND EXECUTIVE 
No man in public life today has had a wider range ot exe- 
cutive experience. As Chief Forester of the U. S.. he liandled 
vast problems involving millions of dollars, on an area almost 
as big as Europe. As chairman of President Roosevelt's Con- 
servation Commission in 1908, of the National Farm Life Com- 
mittee, of the National Board of Farm Organizations, of the State 
Tuberculosis Campaign of the Red Cross, of the State Legislative 
Committee of the Grange, as President of the U. S. Conser- 
vation Association, as a leading Rotarian and Y. M. C. A. 
man, as chairman of the U. S. Commission to end the pollution 
of rivers and streams, as member of the Pennsylvania Constitu- 
tional Convention, as business man and executor of large estates, 
as instructor of forestry at Yale College, as author of important 
books on forestry, as President of the Huguenot Society, as Com- 
missioner and later Chief Forester of Pennsylvania, his has been an 



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unparalleled record of successful achievements. That he can un- 
scramble the "mess" at Harrisburg and make Pennsylvania solv- 
ent goes without saying. He is a trained executive and busi- 
ness man, ready for a big job. 

"WALK IN" 

Gifford Pinchot thinks for himself; he cannot be cajoled, 
coerced, or influenced. There is nothing in his private or busi- 
ness life to make him subservient to any person or interest. Yet 
he wants advice, and is glad to shape his policies by it. Under 
the old regime it was as hard to see the Chief Forestry Commis- 
sioner of Pennsylvania as the Czar of all the Russias, but when 
Gifford Pinchot took the helm he kept the office door open and had 
a sign "W'alk In" tacked on the lintel. This brought in a stream 
of visitors of all stripes, a self-constituted "cabinet" of advisers. 
His office and ante-rooms were often choked with strangers. His 
friends feared it would check the efficacy of his work, but he only 
laughed, saying. "1 can work more thoroughly when I get advice 
from all quarters ; it aids me to make up my mind quickly. It 
is a diversion to meet new faces. Tell them all to walk in." In 
addition, he often sent for persons interested in forestry to help 
him form his conclusions. 

HANDLES OWN CORRESPONDENCE 

Unlike some other men high in public life in Pennsylvania 
today Gifford Pinchot reads all his correspondence, and answers 
every letter personally, and with care. No matter if it is from a 
millionaire or a humble seeker after some bit of information, it is 
all the same. Mr. Pinchot in the finest sense is a "public servant." 

AS A SPEAKER AND CAMPAIGNER 

While Gifford Pinchot lays no store on his abilities as a 
spellbinder, he is a very convincing extemporaneous speaker. He 
can tell a joke effectively and always holds the interest of his 
audiences. He never talks too long. He states that public speak- 
ing is an effort for him and he looks forward to his appearance 
on the platform with trepidation: Yet he always drives his points 
home and can size up his auditors adm.irably. He is an indefatig- 
able campaigner, tiring out his junior associates and newspaper 
men. His voice is not always of the best, but he puts strains 
on it that no other candidate would attempt, so anxious is he 
not to disappoint gatherings where he is scheduled to speak. 



AS HE APPEARS TO HIS ASSOCIATES^ 

Gifford Pinchot never makes a promise he does not intend to 
keep. He is not a "jollier." While he tries to grant all reasonable 
demands when a request is impossible he can say "no" cheerfully, 
and means it. lie is frank in criticism when any of his asso- 
ciates are at fault, but ready to praise and encourage. He is 
sure to bring out any latent ability or goodness in the people who 
work witli him. Xo one could work with Gifford Pinchot and be 
mean, petty or untruthful. As Major Stuart says. "He has a 
great constructive influence on men." As Augustus Thomas said 
of late Charles Frohman, "To be with him was to be decent" 
holds good with Gifford Pinchot. He is a big. clean, honorable 
man, with whom it is a privilege to work as an associate. He 
will raise the moral tone of Pennsylvania politics and civic life 
if chosen as Governor. 

HIS FAVORITE NOVEL 

Gifford Pinchot is an omnivorous reader of all types of 
books. His favorite novel is "Peter Ibbetson," which gives an 
inl-cling as to the high idealism of his literary predilections. He 
is also fond of Robert Louis Stevenson's romances, and if you 
look at him closely there is much of "R. L. S." in his general 
appearance. He says that Colonel Roosevelt's favorite out-door 
book was Jules Gerard's ".Adventures With Lions in Algeria." 
which remarkable ^•olume, read in early boyhood, formed the im- 
petus which sent "Strongheart" into the wilds of British East 
Africa years later as a "faunal naturalist." 

HOME LIFE 

'JMie liome life of Gift'ord Pinchot is ideal, married as he is 
to an out-door woman of similar tastes and aspirations for the 
public good. Mrs. Pinchot is an enthusiastic horsewoman, a 
mountain climlier and golfer. They are devoted to their son, 
Gift'ord Bryce Pinchot. now sev'en years of- age a sturdy and 
promising lad. Both Gift'ord Pinchot and his wife were active 
workers for Woman's Suffrage long before it became a popular 
issue. 

ROOSEVELT'S ESTIMATE 

"T!ie most useful man in public life in my time" was the 
verdict of the far-seeing and discerning Colonel. Pennsylvania 
is lucky to be able to commandeer the services of such a public- 
spirited political aspirant. He will pay l)ack in service ' ten 
thousand fold, the coniidence of the voters. 



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PINCHOT ON CAMPAIGN FUNDS 

In discussing tlie primary campaign in Pennsylvania and 
other states, Gifford Pinchot said: "I hope to see liefore long 
stringent National laws, followed hy State laws, forbidding the 
use of, or putting a sweeping limit on, campaign funds. The 
use of money for publicity has grown enormously with the in- 
crease in the voting population, uiiiil campaigning has gotten 
beyond the reach of a poor man. lie nnist cither be financed ])y 
a machine or corporations, or stay out of politics. When T en- 
tered the primary T frankly confess 1 had not counted the cost. 
I soon found, however, that I must have publicity and reach the 
voters, and having no long-established organization back of me. 
and the collection of funds a difficult matter, in order to place 
myself on an equality with my opponents, or be hopelessly snowed 
under, I was forced to go into my jeens and 'see it through.' " 

HIS POLITICAL VIEWS 1/ 
On the day that he announced Ins candidacy for Governor, 
Gift'ord Pinchot said to the writer of this article: "T am out 
after the Republican nomination, and am in no sense an in- 
surgent or independent candidate. T have been called a Progres- 
sive, but am ])roud of the title, which only means a 'progressive 
1 Republican,' one who desires to reform the Republican party 
I from within and not encompass its defeat." 

GOVERNOR OF ALL THE PEOPLE 

"Justice to All" would be a fitting motto for the l^incliot 
administration, if the people so decide the question that wav in 
November. Surely they will, as they love a fighter, a square deal, 
and a man who will represent every stage and phase of Pennsvl- 
vania citizenship. From the poores: and most obscure to the 
greatest and most powerful, Gifford Pinchot will be the friend, 
counsellor, and personal representative, the Governor of All tiie 
People. 

SCHOOLS 

In his memorable address at Lock Haven, GilTord Pinchot 
said : "My opponents criticize me for not saying openly what I 
am going to do with the school system of Pennsylvania. The 
reason for that is, I do not yet know what is best, except that I 
intend to see that the children of this State receive the best educa- 
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will receive the same careful local attention and development as 
those in larger communities." Gifford Pinchot speaks out strongly 
for prompt pay for school teachers, also for hospitals, and for 
every State employe down to the humblest forest fire fighter or 
state highway workman. 

STATE COLLEGE 

In June, 1920, while passing through State College with the 
compiler of this article, Gifford Pinchot said : "This is my ideal 
of an inland institution of learning. It deserves the support of the 
entire State, especially because of its broad policy in offering free 
tuition to the ambitious young students of modest means." These 
words have been borne out by his speech at "State" on September 
29 ; those in doubt can apply the "deadly parallel." Gifford Pinchot 
is a loyal rooter for State College and other institutions which are 
doing a big work and receive State aid. He will see that they get 
their deserts, when State funds are diverted back from their 
present wasteful channels. . 

GOOD ROADS 

_An ardent horseman, hiker and motorist, Gifford Pinchot has 
always favored good roads. He took an active part in good roads 
agitation years ago at the behest of the State Grange, and set things 
in motion. He expresses himself as determined to complete the 
State highways as planned, but in a way to place as small a burden 
on the taxpayers as possible. 

PROHIBITION 

Gifford Pinchot, speaking at Lock Haven, September 29, said : 
"My platform on closing the saloons and wiping out bootlegging 
speaks for itself. I mean every word of it." Colonel Roosevelt,, 
by superhuman effort, once made New York City as dry as the 
Sahara Desert with the oases drained ; Gifford Pinchot can do the 
same thing in Pennsylvania, if State and National laws so demand. 

STAGED A THRILLING COMEBACK \J 

From the days when political avenues seemed closed to liini, 
and newspapers that had lauded him, openly criticised hin.i for 
his loyalty to Denny O'Neil, to the tune when he cleaned up and 
put life into the Forestry De])artment, placed the only approach 
to |)oi)iilar government in the Constitutional Convention, devised 
the coniniittee which is sliowing the clearest way to re-finance 

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the State, and is the only man who his won the RepubHcan nom- 
ination for Governor without v.n organization back of him. and 
without the aid of Philadelphia and IMttsburg — he carried Gl 
out of the 67 counties, and had a grand complimentary vote in 
the great cities as well, Gifford Pinchot has shown that he is 
a ligiiting American, a figure worthy to be entrusted with any 
State or National burden. His thrilling comeback into Penn- 
sylvania politics literally bucking centre for a touchdown through 
a seeming impregnable line of bosses, stamps him as a man of 
destinv. Take it from one who has studied him at close ransze, 
he is a man, a man of genius, a great man, honest, sympathetic, 
loyal and true. 

CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM 

There vi^ill be much to do besides cleaning up the mess on the 
hill. Gifford Pinchot does not intend to emulate Samson and 
perform constantly tearing down the pillars of the Capitol. He 
will put across a genuine constructive program, wherein the people 
will lead and not be led, and the "Pennsylvania Idea" will become 
a watchword of national progress and government. Giflford 
Pinchot will build and grow ; he never stands still or retrogrades. 
"Excelsior" would be a good motto for his gait, but he will cross 
his mountains safely and easily and win the gratitude of all of us. 

DANGER OF POLITICAL APATHY 

Despite the great issues at stake, such as the so-called mess 
at Harrisburg. the addled finances of the State, the business and 
social unrest, strikes, and hard times, the voters have not shown 
the interest in the present campaign ihey should. Probably many 
bosses, already counting their scalps among the sequestered, are 
not getting out the vote, as the registration days have shown. 
But it is the November election that counts. Let every man and 
woman voter honor themselves and Pennsylvania in registering 
their confidence in our greatest citizen, Gififord Pinchot. by 
marking a ballot for him on November 7th. Make it the elec- 
tion of elections., by choosing by a tremendous and solid majority 
the greatest Governor as the successor of a very great Governor, 
in a line of great Governors ; then truly can we rejoice and say : 
"Pennsylvania, the Keystone, has found herself, has come to her 
own, is in the vanguard of the solidarity^ of the States and Nation." 

VOTE FOR GIFFORD PINCHOT, NOVEMBER 7TH 

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INDEX 

Page 

The Man ---------- 1 

Personal Appearance -------1 

Ancestry ---------- 2 

Early Life ---------2 

Religion ---------- 2 

Education -_-.-----3 

Career in Pennsylvania -------3 

Saver and Salvager of Men, A -4 

Salary Raiser, The -------- 4 

Reputed Wealth, His - 5 

Business Man, A--------6 

Labor Views, His --------6 

Farmers, With the --------6 

Friend, As a- - - - - - -- - 7 

Fighter, As a---------7 

World War, In the -------- 7 

Outdoor Man, As an -.-----8 

Executive, An All Around - 8 

"Walk In" . - - - 9 

Handles Own Correspondence 9 

Speaker and Campaigner, As a -----9 

As He Appears to His Associates - - - - - 10 

Favorite Novel, His 10 

Home Life - - - 10 

• Roosevelt's Estimate - -10 

Campaign Funds, Pinchot on - - - - - - 11 

Political Views, His H 

Governor of All The People 11 

Schools - - - - 11 

State College --------- 12 

Good Roads . - - - 12 

Prohibition - -12 

Staged a Thrilling Comeback ------ 12 

Constructive Program -13 

Danger of Political Apathy - 13 

Vote for Gifford Pinchot - 13 

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